Snapshots Of The Year

In Review '92 - VOICES

Lists, Lists, Lists That Tell Their Own Stories About 1992

''When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two and didn't like it. I didn't inhale and I didn't try it again.''

- Democratic presidential front-runner

Bill Clinton, March 30

''I'm sorry that Miss Washington took it personally, and I agree that I've done something. But I by no means meant to hurt her or do anything to her, and I'm sure she knows that as well.''

- Mike Tyson at his sentencing on rape conviction, March 27

''I have AIDS . . . I am sorry that I have been forced to make this revelation now, at this time. Someone just called and ratted on me and they felt journalistically they had to follow it up.''

- Tennis star Arthur Ashe, April 8

''Bearing babies irresponsibly is wrong. Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. It doesn't help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown - a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid professional woman - mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and then calling it just another 'lifestyle choice.' ''

- Vice President Dan Quayle, May 19

''If you get married and have children but then go outside the home to work, you're a bad mother. If you get married and have children but stay home, you've wasted your education. And if you don't get married but have children and work outside the home as a fictional newscaster, you get in trouble with the vice president.''

- Hillary Clinton, in her commencement address at Wellesley College, May 5

''For God's sake, on behalf of civilization . . . please help us.''

- A ham radio message from the besieged Bosnian town of Gorazde, July 15

''There was complete devastation. It's like building blocks, and somebody comes along and steps on it all.''